The following is an article penned by me about multi-instrumentalist/vocalist the late Eddy Marron. Please feel free to make comments or add additional information.
Eddy Marron was born on June 24th, 1938 in Anklam, Mecklenburg, Germany. In 1952, he came to Stuttgart in the Federal Republic Of Germany, and he began playing guitar at 17, playing dance music with various groups. In 1964, Marron was an official musician at the Winter Olympic Games at Innsbruck, Austria. From 1965 to 1968, he studied concert guitar at the Heidelberg Academy Of Music. Marron also studied classical guitar at the University of Music at Mannheim.
For the following three years, he was the electric bass player in the Jochen Brauer Sextet. In 1971, he founded his own school of music, and two years later founded the "Jazz Workshop" in Darmstadt.
In 1971, Eddy Marron also formed a progressive group called "Vita Nova", along with Sylvester Levay on keyboards, and Christian von Hoffmann on drums, Hoffmann and Levay being from the Ambros Seelos Band. The band released one, self-titled, studio album that year.
In 1972, Marron joined the jazz-rock/krautrock group "Dzyan", and along with members Peter Giger on drums and percussion, and Reinhard Karwatky on bass and keyboards, recorded two studio records on the Bellaphon Record label, "Time Machine" in 1973, and "Electric Silence" in 1974. As well as guitar, he experiments with a Turkish zaz, and on Electric Silence, also a sitar. At the time, the records recieved good reviews in the "Jazzpodium". (In 2010, an archival Dzyan recording with Marron was released on Compact Disc and lp called "Mandala", originally recorded as a "SWF Session" in 1972)
Mr. Marron was also involved as a guitarist for German jazz-rock group "Missus Beastly", and was recorded on a live album of theirs called "Bremen 1974".
In 1975, he was in Hans Koller's group "Free Sound", along with Jurgen Wuchner and Janusz Stefanski, from which the lp "For Marcel Duchamp" appeared on MPS.
Between 1976 and 1978, Marron appeared as a trio member with former Dzyan drummer Peter Giger, and bass player Gunter Lenz, dubbed "Giger Lenz Marron", releasing two studio albums "Beyond" and "Where The Hammer Hangs", produced on the Nagara label founded by Giger. These albums also featured percussionist Trilok Gurtu. In 1976, Marron moved to Arnhem, The Netherlands, where he founded his own trio, and taught jazz guitar as a Professor at the Music Academy Of Amsterdam. He also lectured at the Royal Conservatory in the Hague, and from 1981, taught jazz guitar at the Hochschule fur Musik Koln.
In 1980, Eddy Marron recorded a solo album on the Nagara label called "Por Marco", with a somewhat lighter jazz and ethnic feel.
In 1990, Prof. Eddy Marron published a music workbook called "The Rhythmic Teaching". Professor Marron later retired from his University teaching.
It came to my attention just recently, that he died on February 6th, 2013.
I would like to dedicate this modest article to the life and music of Eddy Marron.
Edited by presdoug - February 14 2015 at 18:15
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